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OSHKOSH - With some help from a new superhero, comic book legend Stan Lee and Experimental Aircraft Association's top boss announced a new partnership Friday at EAA AirVenture.

The alliance between The Stan Lee Foundation and the EAA Young Eagles program, according to EAA Chief Executive Officer Jack Pelton, will develop aviation-related programs and content that will inspire young people to get involved "in all aspects of aviation" and take the Young Eagles program to "a whole new level."

"This is a great day for EAA and the Stan Lee Foundation," Pelton said to media and onlookers at Boeing Plaza. " ... We're going to get kids, through your foundation, interested in aviation."

Aviore, the superhero who wears a blue and yellow suit complete with a cape and goggles, said he will help "promote the spirit of aviation, here with EAA and the Young Eagles program and ... help the aviation community."

"We figured that aviation needs its own superhero," said Lee, the mastermind behind "Spider-Man," "The Incredible Hulk," "The X-Men" and other superhero hits. "We found this guy flying around without a plane, and we figured he'd make a good hero."

In his remarks, Lee stressed the importance of getting young people interested in aviation.

"One of the problems is it doesn't seem as exciting or glamorous to them today because it's all jet planes, and they have a notion that a pilot gets in a cockpit, sits down and goes to sleep while the plane does the work.

"We've got to find a way to let the young people know that there's something very heroic and very glamorous about flying a jet plane. It's not as easy as it looks. It's very important, and the lives of many people are at stake. We've got to come up with the right stories and the right images, and we've got to really excite young people about aviation and about what's happening in the sky today."